Note: I believe there are genuine instances where medication helps. Coming from a family with a history of schizophrenia, I understand how hard it can be to survive without access to modern medications.
That said, I also believe that the Therapy Industrial Complex is myopically focused upon the individual, to the point where there’s often not even consideration of societal factors influencing our minds. It is not individual mental health leading to rising suicide rates, increases in mass shootings, and generalized depression. It is our society.
If you genuinely don’t feel regular feelings of climate anxiety that effects your ability to focus on the meaningless trash that is much of modern life, then it is you who need medication, not those who experience the entirely rational anxiety of knowing that life as we know it is very likely to come to a screeching halt, leaving us and our future generations infinitely worse off than the generations before them. It is sick to be healthy in a sick society. Instead of taking drugs to hide your emotions, use them to get angry enough to do something.
As long as people keep taking their soma and going to work, things won’t get better, they just won’t. Period.
No, i feel that entirely. My issue is with supposed doctors prescribing pills like Candy for any little thing. The US has ridiculous rates of anti depressant use. We don’t release the data, but one study found 110 pills consumed per person. Our system isn’t set up to heal people, it’s set up to cover their gaping wounds with paper mache and send them back to work. I can hardly fault the people who went to a professional for help, nor their desire for some sort of salve against our toxic, corrosive society.
That makes perfect sense. As someone who has had genuine chemical imbalances I’ve had to wrestle with, another thing that’s really interesting is that people who are obviously in the depths of delusional/paranoid hell are so afraid of the mental system that they never seek help. It’s so sad that its in the state its in, if things were a little better than maybe those people wouldn’t balk at therapy while they are in the throes of schizophernia or something.